Savvion BusinessManager Now Available for Use in HP, IBM UNIX Environments
SANTA CLARA, CALIFORNIA, U.S.A. - SavvionTM, a global provider of innovative automated business management solutions, today announced that its e-business management platform, Savvion BusinessManagerTM, now supports HP-UX, IBM AIX, and related Java Developer Kits. Customers can now implement BusinessManager on a wider variety of leading enterprise servers and across mixed hardware environments.
The Westaim Corporation holds a 22 per cent equity interest in Savvion, formerly Technology Deployment International.
Savvion BusinessManager is the power behind “managed e-business.” The pure Java and XML platform lets companies quickly transform any business operation – from project management to order processing to supply-chain management – into an automated Web application. BusinessManager automates critical business tasks, streamlining processes internally and across extended enterprises. Customers then oversee and control these automated processes from any browser-based device—including handheld Palm computers and WAP-enabled cell phones.
Savvion BusinessManager now supports HP-UX, AIX, Sun Solaris, and Windows NT. This extended operating system support lets customers implement BusinessManager solutions on a broader variety of hardware and software platforms providing greater flexibility and choice.
“Today’s extended enterprises must communicate efficiently with geographically dispersed customers, partners, suppliers, and employees. Savvion solves this problem by easily automating business operations in online environments, providing companies with the immediate benefits of Internet technologies: lower costs, improved productivity, and higher revenues,” said Dr. Ketabchi, Savvion founder and CEO. “With the addition of HP-UX and AIX support, Savvion can better serve extended enterprises by giving them the flexibility to implement managed e-business on UNIX servers and in mixed hardware environments.”
Savvion also announced today that it has joined Hewlett-Packard’s Computing Solution Provider Program, enabling it to leverage HP’s education, training, technical, sales, and marketing services to deliver enhanced customer solutions. As part of the partner program, Savvion BusinessManager is being showcased in HP’s Global Solutions Catalog.
“Savvion will continue to enhance BusinessManager’s e-business capabilities to allow extended enterprises to fully leverage the benefits of Web technologies,” Ketabchi added. “We are committed 100 percent to streamlining enterprise interactions to provide companies with revolutionary operational efficiencies.”
About Savvion
Savvion is an innovative global provider of Internet-deployed business management solutions. The company’s e-business platform, BusinessManager, lets customers automate business operations by quickly transforming internal and external processes into flexible, distributed Web applications that can be accessed and managed over intranets, extranets, and wireless devices. Customers then manage their business operations online, streamlining interaction with their customers, partners, suppliers, and employees. BusinessManager gives customers a real-time, online view of their automated business processes and the power to modify their execution dynamically based on changing conditions. Privately held, Savvion received $25 million in first-round funding in April 2000 from an international investment group including: The Westaim Corporation, HIG Capital, TransCosmos USA (Japan), D-Age (Netherlands), and Redwood Venture Partners. Savvion is headquartered in the heart of Silicon Valley in Santa Clara, Calif. For more information, visit www.savvion.com or call 1-888-544-5511.
About The Westaim Corporation
The Westaim Corporation is a technology accelerator that launches exceptional technologies into the marketplace. In addition to its investment in Savvion, Westaim’s technology investments include Westaim Biomedical Corp., which has developed an infection control technology for use in the treatment of wounds, and iFire Technology Inc., which has developed a revolutionary low-cost flat panel display. Westaim’s common shares are listed on Nasdaq under the symbol WEDX and on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the trading symbol WED.
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For more information:
Tony Johnston, Senior Vice President, Corporate Affairs, The Westaim Corporation
(403) 234-3103, info@westaim.com, www.westaim.com
Don Nanneman, Savvion
(408) 330-3496; nanneman@savvion.com, www.savvion.com
Mary MacGregor, Spiralgroup for Savvion
(760) 360-9014, marym@spiralgroup.com
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